I think ACL is better in Joomla. For basic sites there are amazing plugins like yoast seo as you may be aware for wordpress that creates canonical urls, I love jreviews and easyblog is amazing for joomla but I am leaning away from Joomla as I find so many problems trying to get memcached working for example and with wordpress stuff seems to just work easier and faster. The multisite that wordpress offers is pretty amazing. I am more experienced using joomla than wordpress but have found wordpress easier and a dream.I also find that there was a login issue in joomla where every now and again a random user would get someone else username and password in the field and yes it allowed them to login. I was never able to solve that one though there is a good thread way back on that. It may well be fixed and for many this will never be an issue.

I am so grateful for Joomla and mambo I feel like an ass for dissing it but I now see from an seo perspective how the platform held me back at a critical point. Thats not the platforms fault. Wordpress just knew the importance and relevance of seo and built a more friendly platform to take that into account.

There may be some real bugbears in wordpress that I do not know about bear in mind so would like to get others opinions on that.

IMO Wordpress is no better at SEO than joomla all though more effort required, judging by the amount of spam that has url/wp-plugin/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx that redirects to a completely different site I believe that on the whole Joomla is more secure out of the box. My 2 cents worth.

If you don't know what you are doing with menus and how they generate url's and the blog category layouts then you might struggle with duplicate content in a basic joomla website. Also you need to make the extra steps to get nice sef friendly url's. I am yet to find a good canonical plugin for joomla. I wish yoast would adapt their plugin for joomla.Joomla is pretty awesome for many reasons of course, and the developers don't want to be concerned with seo per se.

The answer you're looking for is in one or more of the places I've referred to above. The answer to the question depends, of course, on what you're looking for. You have not defined what you're actually seeking and, therefore, it's impossible to provide you with a specific answer.

Lighting Dude wrote:If you also use Wordpress, can you tell me why you choose to use Joomla? I'm currently using Wordpress, have previously used other things and am interested in Joomla.

I think the real question is why are you asking this question here? This is the Joomla forum and, of course, it's to be expected that there will be a certain bias towards using Joomla.

Our job is not to argue the case for using one CMS over another; that's for you decide and no-one else but you can make that decision. If you like Wordpress—if you're fluent with Wordpress (or with Drupal or with LEGO®)—then use whatever you're happiest with using. If you're "interested" in using Joomla then use it; try it out for yourself.

There's no way we'll ever be able to convince people to use Joomla if they don't actually try it out for themselves. These discussions don't actually serve any useful purpose (as I've argued elsewhere).

I hope that some of this information is helpful.

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Joomla is the second most popular CMS of the world after Wordpress.It’s powerful enough to run most websites without any problems, and it doesn’t require the same level of technical experience to run as Drupal either.

Hey guys,I also have very similar question. The main idea is that I started to build my site on Prestashop and know I am not sure.. My friend recommended Joomla and I am not sure if Joomla right for e-commerce. Is Joomla good for e-commerce?

Depends on personal opinion, seen most people recommending WordPress over blogs that we come across. Joomla has its own core value. WordPress makes their interface easy though - but I think Joomla is much more structured and helps organize the site in a systematic manner.

daywap02 wrote:Hey guys,I also have very similar question. The main idea is that I started to build my site on Prestashop and know I am not sure.. My friend recommended Joomla and I am not sure if Joomla right for e-commerce. Is Joomla good for e-commerce?

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As good as any other system. Are you happy with Prestashop? If yes, why the change? Prestashop is a shoppingcart with a website.Joomla is a website with a shoppingcart.

Depending on what you want to sell, you can find good shoppingcarts for Joomla. Switching shoppingcarts, especially if you already have a substantial site, is not for the faint of heart.